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P. A. SMITH, Jr.

I HOOK. No. 298,610. Patented May 13, 1884.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,510, dated May 13, 1884.

' Application filed November 21, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN A. SMITH, J r., a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Providence, State of Rhode Island, have invented an Improvement in Hooks, of which the followingdescription, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

My invention relates to hooks, preferably of that class in which the hook is adapted to secure or hold a button to a fabric, shoe, or other article.

The object of my invention is to provide a hook adapted to retain a button in position on a fabric without bending or otherwise changing the form or arrangement of the hook after it has been punched or cut from sheet metal, thus obviating impairing the original strength of the metal; and, further, to provide a hook which is capable of properly retaining a button upon a fabric, shoe, or other article, and which involves a minimum expenditure of stock, time, and labor in its production.

To these ends my invention consists of a hook adapted to retain a button in position upon a fabric, shoe, or other article, the said hook consisting, essentially, of a base and partial loop, integral therewith, punched or cut from sheet metal, with the metal in said base and partial loop of the same strength and in the same condition in which it existed in the sheet, substantially as hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is an elevation showing one of my improved hooks as retaining a button upon a piece of fabric, shoe, or-other article. Fig. 2 is a plan of one of my improved hooks as punched from sheet metal. Fig. 3 is a section on line a: m, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a plan of a piece of sheet metal, one of my improved hooks having been punched therefrom.

The hook A, punched or stamped from sheet metal of suitable thickness, consists of a base, a, and partial loop I), integral therewith, the latter being curved and projecting from the edge 0 of the former, so that the free end a of the partial loop I) is disposed above and in the same plane as the edge 0 of the base, and

sufficiently removed therefrom to permit the eye of a button to be passed between a and c, and engage the partial loop I), as clearly indicated in Fig. 1.. The hook, when in use, is of the same form as when punched from sheet metal, and the metal in the said hook is therefore the same, as to its condition and disposition, as when in the sheet. In other words, the hook is not bent or curved in any manner after being punched or cut out by the die from the sheet, thus enabling the full strength of the metal to be retained in the hook, The metal in the hook A, not having to be bent in any manner, after cutting it from the sheet, to

adapt it for use, enables a harder metal to be taken from which to manufacture the hooks than can be employed to produce hooks or fasteners which, after cutting, are completed by bending.

It will be noticed in the present instance that the heel of the partial loop I) joins the base a at one side of the center or middle thereof, and that its free end, a, is carried beyond or to the opposite side of the middle of said base, the purpose of which is to bring the eye of a button, when held by the partial loop 1), directly over the center of the base a.

Another peculiarity of my improved hook is that the part of the hook which comes directly in contact with the button, and receives the strain exerted on the button is an edge produced by the action of the cutting-die which cut the hook from sheet metal, whereas in all other integral sheet-metal hooks the shank of the button held by them comes directly in contact with the flat side of the blank.

The configuration of the base and partial loop may be materially modified without departing from the spirit of my invention.

What I claim is- 1. A hook adapted to retain a button in position on a fabric, shoe, or other article, consisting of a base and a partial loop on the same vertical plane, integral therewith, the latter projecting from one edge of the former, substantially as shown and described, whereby its free end is brought directly over and above said edge and sufficiently removed therefrom to permit the passage of the eye of a button between said free endand the edge of the eye of ashank-buttonbetween said parts and base, the whole being disposed in the same to act against the edge of the partial loop, all plane, substantially as described. as shown, and for the purpose set forth.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, In testimony whereoflhave signed my name 5 the herein-described flat sheet-metal hook A, to this specification in the presence of two sub 15 consisting, essentially, of the base aand parscribing Witnesses.

tial-curved loop b, projecting from the edge 0 FRANKLIN A. SMITH, JR. of said base a,both in the same vertical plane, WVitnesses: and having its free end, a, above and removed GEO. TV. PRENTIOE,

10 from said edge 0, to permit the passage of the J AS. F. THAYER. 

